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	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Hamiltonian vector field
		In mathematics and physics, a Hamiltonian vector field is a vector field induced on a Poisson manifold or symplectic manifold by an energy function or Hamiltonian.
		The symplectomorphisms arising from the flow of a Hamiltonian vector field are known as Hamiltonian symplectomorphisms.
		Since the symplectic form on a symplectic manifold is nondegenerate, it sets up an isomorphism between the tangent bundle and the cotangent bundle, thus establishing a one-to-one correspondence between tangent vectors and one-forms.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Hamiltonian_vector_field (325 words)

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		Vector fields that satisfy this closure condition are elements of Lie groups, and in the technical mathematics literature, the functions $\Theta $ are often are called ''Casimirs'' -or somewhat inappropriately, ''Hamiltonians''.
		With respect to evolution in the direction of the torsion current, the symplectic volume is contracting or expanding exponentially unless $\Gamma =0,$ and therefore such vector fields cannot represent a symplectic process (which preserves the volume element).
		Physically, then, in a symplectic system there must exist a component of electric force that accelerates charged particles along the magnetic field lines, and that component of force, as an artifact of the symplectic constraints, is the ultimate source of the magnetic dynamo.
	www22.pair.com /csdc/tex/short.tex (5105 words)

	PlanetMath: symplectic vector field
		is symplectic if its flow preserves the symplectic structure.
		Cross-references: Lie derivative, structure, flow, vector field, symplectic manifold
		This is version 1 of symplectic vector field, born on 2002-12-09.
	planetmath.org /encyclopedia/SymplecticVectorField.html (56 words)

	UCSC Mathematics Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Boltje and his students are involved with the conjectures of Alperin, Broue and Dade in the theory of modular representations of finite groups, and Cooperstein studies finite groups, in particular groups of Lie type, in the context of finite geometry and combinatorics.
		Symplectic geometry is the geometry underlying classical mechanics and is important to quantum mechanics and low-dimensional topology, and is an active area of research.
		Her work is an interplay between group theory, symplectic geometry, and uses a good deal of symbolic manipulation.
	www.math.ucsc.edu /research/index.html (911 words)

	CHARLOTTE TECHNOLOGY: LOCAL LINKS
		The topology of interest is the topology induced by the constraint on the variety {x,y,z,t} such that the vector field of flow satisfies a kinematic system of ordinary differential equations, as well as a dynamical partial differential equation of evolution.
		The symplectic manifold does admit vector fields that leave the Action integral stationary, but such fields are not unique and can lead to a hierarchy of stationary states.
		Those vector field solutions to the Navier-Stokes equations which are uniquely integrable in the sense of Frobenious emulate potential flows or streamline processes; they generate an Action 1-form of Pfaff dimension 1 and 2, respectively.
	www.uh.edu /~rkiehn/pd2/copenref.doc (2934 words)

	Colloquim: Helmut Hofer - Dynamical systems at the interface of symplectic geometry and three-dimensional topology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		The vector fields in question are the so-called Reeb vector fields, which naturally arise in the study of contact structures (the odd-dimensional analogue of a symplectic structure).
		A typical example for a Reeb vector field is the vector field generating the geodesic flow restricted to the unit sphere bundle.
		Ongoing research seems to indicate that the existence of a global system of surfaces of section is not depending on the particular vector field, but rather on the homotopy class of the underlying contact structure.
	www.math.psu.edu /colloquium/spring05/hofer.html (247 words)

	Viktor L. Ginzburg (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		These areas are symplectic topology and Hamiltonian dynamics, Poisson Lie groups and Poisson manifolds, and Hamiltonian actions of Lie groups.
		Ginzburg's research in symplectic topology and Hamiltonian dynamics focuses on the existence problem for periodic orbits of certain Hamiltonian systems.
		Applications of cobordism techniques to gain a new understanding of various "classic" and recent results in symplectic geometry is the center of his project undertaken jointly with V. Guillemin (MIT) and Y. Karshon (Hebrew University).
	www.math.ucsc.edu /Faculty/Ginzburg.html (400 words)

	PlanetMath: Hamiltonian vector field
		is the Hamiltonian, then the flow of the Hamiltonian vector field
		Cross-references: flow, Hamiltonian, manifold, 1-form, symplectic vector field, vector field, smooth function, cotangent bundle, tangent bundle, isomorphism, symplectic manifold
		This is version 3 of Hamiltonian vector field, born on 2002-12-09, modified 2006-05-03.
	planetmath.org /encyclopedia/HamiltonianVectorField.html (102 words)

	Hamiltonian mechanics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Hamiltonian induces a special vector field on the symplectic manifold, known as the symplectic vector field.
		The symplectic vector field, also called the Hamiltonian vector field, induces a Hamiltonian flow on the manifold.
		The integral curves of the vector field are a one-parameter family of transformations of the manifold; the parameter of the curves is commonly called the time.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hamiltonian_mechanics (1328 words)

	The physics of isolated horizons
		Moreover, given that the definition of isolated horizon is semilocal and does not rely, for example, in the existence of asymptotic null infinity, the class of spacetimes containing isolated horizons is not limited to the asymptotically flat case and includes for example cosmological examples such as de Sitter spacetime.
		This is analogous to the usual addition of a surface term to the bulk action of general relativity on manifolds with boundary formulated in terms of the spacetime metric in such a way that it becomes differentiable on the class of spacetimes with a fixed value of the metric on the manifold boundary.
		The first step is to define a notion of surface gravity which at first sight seems to be straight forward given the existence of a null Killing field for the metric of the isolated horizon, however one immediately faces the problem of choice of normalization for this vector field.
	www.phys.lsu.edu /mog/mog14/node7.html (1733 words)

	Symplectic vector field - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In physics and mathematics, a symplectic vector field is one whose flow preserves a symplectic form.
		(The interior product gives a map from vector fields to 1-forms, which is an isomorphism due to the nondegeneracy of a symplectic form.) The equivalence of the definitions follows from the closedness of the symplectic form and Cartan's magic formula for the Lie derivative in terms of the exterior derivative.
		The lie bracket of two symplectic vector fields is Hamiltonian, and thus the collection of symplectic vector fields and the collection of Hamiltonian vector fields both form lie algebras.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Symplectic_vector_field (274 words)

	P.P. Cook's Tangent Space: Kallosh on Attractors
		Special geometry is the name given for the geometry associated to the scalar couplings of the vector and hypermultiplets of theories involving 8 supercharges, although the original use of the name was restricted to N=2, vector multiplets and four dimensions.
		The flux integrals of the field strengths and their duals give us electric, q, and magnetic, p, charges, and the symplectic transformation is interpreted as the generalization of electric-magnetic duality.
		The scalars of the Lagrangian may be thought of as coordinates and, under the restrictions of supersymmetry, the geometry of the complex symplectic vector space C(2n+2)associated to the scalar coordinates is called special geometry.
	ppcook.blogspot.com /2006/03/kallosh-on-attractors.html (960 words)

	Book review
		Thus classical mechanics, electromagnetic (and any) fields as well as quantum mechanics can be treated by the same tools, as a unit, alike nature is also not divided into parts by different physical phenomena.
		So they reach to the definitions of the canonical transformation, the symplectic transformation and Poisson transformation, as well as to the symplectic group (pp.70-72).
		Thus, the student is introduced step by step in the canonical and group theoretical (algebraic) description of mechanics interpreted in vector fields.
	members.tripod.com /vismath/sg/mars.htm (1160 words)

	Finite fields (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		is the last basis vector of the standard symplectic basis, see §2.
		) involves constructing the ordinary irreducible representations of the odd symplectic groups in terms of the ordinary irreducible representations of the even symplectic groups.
		on the nonzero vectors of a symplectic vector space of dimension 2n is transitive and the isotropy group of a point is
	www.maths.warwick.ac.uk /~bww/symplectic/node6.html (471 words)

	3.2 On the global energy-momentum and angular momentum of gravitating systems: The successes
		Thus the spinor fields in the Nester-Witten 2-form must satisfy a weaker boundary condition at infinity such that the spinor fields themselves be the spinor constituents of the BMS translations.
		is the symplectic metric on the bundle of primed spinors.
		They chose the six BMS vector fields tangent to the intersection of the spacelike hypersurface and null infinity as the generators of their angular momentum.
	www.emis.de /journals/LRG/Articles/lrr-2004-4/articlesu4.html (2951 words)

	Springer Online Reference Works (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		are called symplectic transvections, or translations in the direction of the line
		Hamilton equations) the phase space is a symplectic manifold, a manifold
		As a consequence, its tangent mapping at a fixed point belongs to the symplectic group of the tangent space.
	eom.springer.de /s/s091820.htm (301 words)

	geomf04 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		A classical result due to Schur and Horn relates the diagonal vector of a Hermitian matrix A to the eigenvalues of A. Considering all Hermitian matrices with the same fixed set of eigenvalues it turns out that the corresponding set of diagonal vectors describes a convex polytope.
		Symplectic convexity theorems like the ones by Atiyah-Guillemin-Sternberg and Duistermaat can be used to study certain aspects of the structure of semisimple Lie groups.
		Their relationsip to one-dimensional field theories is analogous to that of usual differential operators to zero-dimensional theories (study of spaces of maps of zero dimensional manifolds).
	math.arizona.edu /~foth/geomf04.html (706 words)

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		Basic course in symplectic geometry: A symplectic manifold $(M,\omega)$ is a manifold $M$ along with a closed 2-form $\omega$ which is everywhere nondegenerate (i.e., $\omega_x:T_x M \times T_x M \to \R$ is an everywhere nondegenerate skew-symmetric pairing); thus $\omega$ induces fiberwise isomorphism between $T_x M$ and $T_x^* M$.
		Then the tangent bundle is a symplectic vector bundle (i.e., a vector bundle with a smoothly varying symplectic structure on each fiber).
		"This fact that you have vector fields given by functions is kind of neat, because to give a vector field is to give $n$ functions, but to give one function is much easier." Moser's theorem: Let $(\omega_t)$ be a smooth family of symplectic forms on the closed manifold $M$.
	www.math.uchicago.edu /~msmukler/sep30 (1231 words)

	2.1 Geometry
		The connection is a device introduced for establishing a comparison of vectors in different points of the manifold.
		The covariant derivative of a tangent vector with bein-components
		to be the tangent vector field to the congruence of curves
	www.univie.ac.at /EMIS/journals/LRG/Articles/lrr-2004-2/articlesu3.html (2680 words)

	Summer Tutorials, 2003
		Symplectic manifolds have also been at the center of recent developments in quantum physics, such as string theory.
		However, due to the less intuitive character of a symplectic structure, it took mathematicians a long time to answer some basic questions about symplectic manifolds: a famous example is the nonsqueezing theorem (one cannot squeeze a ball into a cylinder of smaller base radius by a symplectic transformation), which was proved by Gromov in 1985.
		Prerequisites: A solid knowledge of manifolds, differential forms, and vector fields, at the level of Math 25/55 or 135.
	www.math.harvard.edu /tutorials/2003.html (1754 words)

	ON NONCOMMUTATIVE GEOMETRY, QUANTUM & SUPER THINGIES.
		Another consequence of this exploration is that consistency requires the gauge fields also to be quantized, and this means in the context of GR, quantizing the coordinate functions that are supposed to be laid on spacetime in order to designate numerically, spacetime points.
		The symplectic structure given by fundamental Poisson brackets of a Hamiltonian formalism of classical mechanics maps, in canonical quantization to the symplectic structure provided by the Heisenberg algebra.
		The symplectic structure is necessary to define the kinematical context (that which is physically possible) of a system of "points" which are to be considered as physically dynamical (picking out from what is possible, the probable) states or processes of the objects that are the points of the set that is to be quantized.
	graham.main.nc.us /~bhammel/MATH/ncgeom.html (5046 words)

	Why symplectic geometry is the natural setting for classical mechanics
		What additional structure is needed to define dynamics on M? We want to turn a Hamiltonian H (i.e., any smooth function on M) into a vector field V. Then the dynamics consists of the flow along integral curves of V. First, note that the vector field V should depend only on the differential dH.
		This must hold for all vector fields V coming from Hamiltonians, which means that the bilinear form above each point of M must be an alternating form.
		(Not every vector field comes from a Hamiltonian, but each tangent vector occurs in some Hamiltonian vector field.) In other words, ω is a differential 2-form on M. A symplectic manifold is a manifold together with a closed, nondegenerate 2-form.
	research.microsoft.com /~cohn/Thoughts/symplectic.html (945 words)

	6th International Conference on Clifford Algebras, TTU, Cookeville, Tennessee, Summer 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		There are two conformally covariant first order differential operators acting on spinor fields of a semi-Riemannian spin manifold, the Dirac operator and the twistor operator P. We discuss special non conformally flat geometries that admit solutions of the twistor equation Pf = 0.
		The equations of motion are solved in general in the case that external fields are absent.
		The observation is, that geometrical and physical properties of the solutions sensitively depend on the spacetime structure of the momentum vector associated by the variational principle to an orbit.
	math.tntech.edu /rafal/cookeville/plenary_abstracts.html (2381 words)

	Symplectic spaces
		We'll use symplectic space for a finite-dimensional vector space V over a field F, equipped with a bilinear pairing (.,.) that is alternating and nondegenerate.
		We shall show that every symplectic space V of positive dimension is the direct sum of H with another symplectic space W, necessarily of dimension dim(V)-2.
		Indeed a vector in both W and H is a vector v in H such that (v,w)=0 for all w in H, and by nondegeneracy the only such v is the zero vector.
	www.math.harvard.edu /~elkies/M55a.99/pfaff.html (1202 words)

	Hamiltonian Transfer Maps
		Here, m, q, and p are the respective mass, charge, and momentum of the particle, A is the magnetic vector potential, and c is the speed of light.
		The orientation and strength of the dipole field at the origin were arranged to match those for the uniform field previously tested, as shown in the figure below.
		Moreover, because the field strength is generally weaker than the uniform field, the radius of the trajectory increases:
	www2.physics.umd.edu /~tjs/map.html (809 words)

	Springer Online Reference Works (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		is sometimes included in the definition of a symplectic structure.
		Mostly, for a symplectic structure on a manifold the defining
		denote the vector field on a symplectic manifold
	eom.springer.de /s/s091860.htm (314 words)

	Brian Dolan: Research Interests (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		It is possible to define the concept of distances on the space of parameters, giving rise to a metric on the space (the metric is essentially the matrix of expectation values of the two-point functions of the theory).
		For example, it is possible to write the renormalisation group equation in a manifestly general co-ordinate covariant way (two papers [1] and [2]) - somewhat in the spirit of general relativity.
		It is also possible to describe the vector flow of the renormalisation group as a Hamiltonian flow on a symplectic space.
	www.thphys.may.ie /staff/bdolan/research-technical.html (310 words)

	Papers of Maxim Braverman
		We establish an equivariant generalization of the Novikov inequalities which allow to estimate thetopology of the set of critical points of a closed basic invariant form by means of twisted equivariant cohomology of the manifold.
		Holomorphic Morse inequalities and symplectic reduction, Topology, 38 (1999) 71-78.
		Lie(G) be an equivariant map, such that the corresponding vector field on M does not vanish outside of a compact subset.
	www.math.neu.edu:16080 /~braverman/fullpublications.html (2720 words)

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